[Mageia-dev] Handling single user/rescue/failsafe mode

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 26/04/2012 12:12, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
> On 26 April 2012 11:38, Colin Guthrie<mageia at colin.guthr.ie>  wrote:
>> It seems that in mga1 single user mode just gave a shell without
>> requiring root password.
>>
>> I'm not sure when this was added, but in the initscripts changelog, I
>> see it has come from the big mdvconf patch[1].
>>
>> Can anyone remember the reason for this (perhaps it was related to tcb
>> support?) and whether or not we should do the same thing in systemd
>> which currently (now that I've fixed it) uses whatever SINGLE says in
>> /etc/sysconfig/init.
>
> This has been like this forever...
> At least for the past decade.
> I think other distros do/did it too.
Some of them force the use of a password for single mode. Given the ease 
of bypassing it through init=/bin/sh, unless the bootloader is also 
protected, I'm a bit sceptic about the interest.

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